Użyteczne fikcje i zbawcze metafory
Useful fictions. Redemptive metaphor

Annotations to "Book of Light"

Summary/Abstract: "Book of Light" is a mystic commentary to Torah, specifically Song of Songs and "Book of Ruth". Metaphors of “light” and „radiance” express belief that language has epiphanic qualities and can be used to show metaphysical sense of being. In Western tradition, this bond between language and reality is being doubted. Unbalanced relation between thought and reality causes lack of trust for human speech. Reality can never measure up to the desires expressed in texts of culture, while idealistic dreams of social justice might never become reality. Is it possible to simultaneously believe in lack of connection between reality and language, and the epiphanic character of the latter?

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